Means for attaching license-tags to vehicles.



N0. 859,722. PATENTED JULY 9. 19m.

' H. E. ASBURY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.19,1906.

Inc.

1 Means for Attaching License-Tags to Vehicles, of which V KTIslItC FEDYSTATES earners- @FFIQE.

HARRY E. ASBURY, O-F PHIL smarts non. sw'racnnve Ls his. @hilfifit. Specification of Tooltwkom it may concern. I p Be it known that I, HAnnY E. Asnonvya citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia; Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive 'deviceior attaching license tags to juitomobiles and other vehicles.

wldy'invention can be readily applied to an automobile and the license tag can be turned to expose another number or detached to expose different license numbers if desired. y

In the acconipanying drawing-Figural, is a front view illustrating myimproved license tagholder secured to the body of an automobile; Fig. 2, is a perspective view of the license tag detached; Fig. 3, is a perspective view of one ofthe devices by which the ta is attachedto a vehicle;' Fig/4, is a sectional view" oi the device shown in Fig. 3; Figs. 5, 6 and 7, are views of modifications oi the attaching device; Fig. 8, is a perspective view of a modification'oi the tag, and Fig. 9, .is a view of a further modification.

A is the license tag, quadrangular in shape in the present instance, and secured to each endof the tag is a rod B. These rods have eyes I) at each end through which pass rivets or other securing devices by which the rods are secured to the corners of the license tag. The attaching device consistsoi' a block D having a screw threaded stem (1 which extends through. a plate 0 on the automobileor other vehicle to which the tag is to be applied; a nut d on the stem firmly secures the block to the vehicle. swiveled in the block is a spindlc E having, Fig. 3, a snap-hook spring bolt e. g In attaching the tag to the vehicle all that is necessary is to space the attaching devices a given distance apart and secure them rigidly to the frame of the \leliicle, then by withdrawing the bolts e the rods B can be mounted on the hooks, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The license tag will then hang ireely'rrom the hooks and display the number on-on'e side of the tag. By swiveling the hohked spindle E as shown and by arranging the rods at each side of the tag two numbers can be used, one on one side of the tag and the other on the opposite side so that when an automobile is passing from one territory to another all that is necessary is to take'the tag and lift the 0nd, thereby sliding the rods through the hooked portions of the spindle and. at the e, the hook being closed by a sliding in the present instance as shownin ADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CENSE-TAGS T0 VEHICLES.

Letters lPatent. Patented July e, 1907.

, Application filed H Wmb r19,1906. seen No. 344,066.

exposing the By making same time turning the tag and spindle, number previously at the backoi the tag. the hooked spindles in the form illustrated tags may be provided, each having the side one tag can be readily detached from the rods, and

made as shown in Fig. 5, in which two or more tags may be mounted on the same-hook, so that by shifting the tagsand turning the hooks certain tags can be exposed while the othershre covered by the exposed tag... 7

Iii" Fig. 6, I have shown cotter pin E and in Fig. 7, I have shown the swiveled spindle E provided witlraii eye B in place ofthe' hook in this instance the rod will have to be so attached to the tag that'one end can be detached to allow it to be passed through the eye.

. InFig. 8, I have shown a modified form of tag in which the tag is bound by a metallic frame B the frame being longer than the tag, so as to expose the side bars to allow the tag to travel on the securing devices when shifted. v

In Fig. 9, I have shown a modification in which only the corners of the rod binding the tag are exposed to be engaged by the securing devices.

1. The crunhlnarlon in a llcenhe tag holder for vehicles of two attaching devices, a reversible tag, and means adjacent to the top and bottom of said tag for the reception of sold attaching device. n either of the two posltlons of the tag, substantially as described.

2. The combination ln 2. modification in which a 3. The combination in a license tag holder, of a tag havthe tag, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a supporting structure having a tug holder, of a tag having rods at each side, blocks se cured to the supporting structure, and spindles swlveleil in the blocks and hooked to engage the rods of the tag, substantially as described.

5. The comblnotlon with a supporting structure having a tap; Holder, of a tag, a rod secured to each slde oi the tag,

r the tag so that the tog-can be reversed or detached, substantially as described.

6. 'lllU 0OlIllllDfltlOIl wlth a supporting structure having a series of.

hooks and another substituted for it. In fact the hooks may be elther of its two pois used in place of the swiveled hook, iv

a tag holder, u[ :1 tag, a rod at each sa d of 51216418,; blocks Suuurml to the supporting structure, a 'lvclod spindles mounted in each block, hooks on the PEG oi the spindles, and spring bolls closing" the books so as to allow {or the tree shifting o[ the tag in the blorks at the some limo nllowing the mg to be dvtached; substantially as dc cribed.'

T The combinaiion of a reversible tag having holding rods :u'ljzicunl to its' corners, with a supporting structure provided will: two holding devices capable of being detachubly secured to said rods to carry said tag with said 10 devices engaging its holding; rods adjacent to either of two opposite pairs of corneis, substantially As described.

in testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses HARRY E. ASBU iY.

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